Hello,
I am 1.90 mt tall, little belly ;) and I weight 98 kgs.
Last year I used to dive with 8kgs weight using a 3mm wet suit.
This year was big mess with my new scubapro pacific stream wetsuit 5mm
I needed to add another 2kgs weights for a total of 10kgs, I think it
is tooo much !
I want to reduce it, how can I do ?
Some say is the way I breath ? is it ?
All I know is that in order to go down I have to take off all GAV / BC
air offcourse and also air from my longs once I reach 10 meters I stay
down, and then if needed balance my BC
But as soon as my air tanks gets to 100 bar i become a lot positive
and tend to go up and the big mess starts if I had only 8 kgs, thats
why now I am diving with 10kgs.
How can I solve this? I notice people of my similar weight diving with
6 kgs only why i cant?
If all divign equipment is negative expect tank as it gets empty and
wet suit, why i need 10kgs if all that stuff isnt 10kgs positive?
Can you please explain me wha tis going on and how can I weight much
less?
Thanks a lot,
Mario
Rudy Benner - 27 Jun 2004 16:56 GMT
I use about 10 kg with my 7 mm FJ wetsuit. I am 120 kg. with a height of 1.8
m. 10 kg sounds like a lot for a 5 mm suit.
New suits tend to be somewhat buoyant. If that suit has a close fitting neck
seal, it could be trapping air. Make an effort to fully flood that suit when
you get into the water. I had a suit that was like that, somewhat like what
is called a semi-dry.
Good luck.
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